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Name: HERO
Launched: 1860
Completed: 08/1860
Builder: North Shields
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 33grt, 13nrt, 70.8 x 13.0 x 6.3ft
Engines: 18nhp
Engines By:
Propulsion: Paddle
Construction: Wood
Reg Number: 28325
History:
31/08/1860 JP Nicholson; registered at Newcastle
1864 George Dixon, Stockton
1865 John Wilkinson et al, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland
1869 William Corner, North Shields; registered at North Shields
1872 Joseph Davison, North Shields
1874 Cuthbert O'C Westgarth, St Anthony's, Newcastle
1884 Archibald Wilson, Felling
No later history known
Comments: 1905: Register closed